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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
It's a 50/50 call for sure.To say it's never a handball would be false. It wasn't exactly hand to ball, but it wasn't ball to hand either.
While it wasn't a deliberate act to move just his arm to block the ball, he did intentionally propel himself in the direction of the ball to block it and it did end up hitting his arm.
I think it's the right call personally.
If you follow 100% the rule that it has to be deliberate hand to ball, then you could just have defenders jumping to block with their arms away from their bodies all the time to block shots and take up space.
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He was already jumping before ball was struck, there’s no way he knew the trajectory of the ball given the speed of the play, when you slow it down I guess you can claim he knew what he was doing but that’s why you can’t look at replays that use slow Kimpembe May of been careless by jumping with his back turned but his arm is parallel to his body. It’s an awful call.
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